* Greg KH (gregkh@suse.de) wrote:> 2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.> > ------------------> > From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>> > The mainline kernel as of 2.6.34-rc5 is not affected by this problem because> commit 10fad5e46f6c7bdfb01b1a012380a38e3c6ab346 fixed it by refactoring.> > lockdep fix incorrect percpu usage> > Should use per_cpu_ptr() to obfuscate the per cpu pointers (RELOC_HIDE is needed> for per cpu pointers).> > git blame points to commit:> > lockdep.c: commit 8e18257d29238311e82085152741f0c3aa18b74d> > But it's really just moving the code around. But it's enough to say that the> problems appeared before Jul 19 01:48:54 2007, which brings us back to 2.6.23.> > It should be applied to stable 2.6.23.x to 2.6.33.x (or whichever of these> stable branches are still maintained).

Tejun, (same as module.c patch) should this patch be applied to 2.6.32.x, orwill it cause problems on ia64 ?